How to prevent creating a alfresco.log file

[robobot]

hello friends,
in my eclipse project i am using the alfresco web service api. every time i start my programm i will always find an empty "alfresco.log" file in my projects root folder. does anybody know where this file comes from, and how i can control the creation of the file ?
thanks in advance.
robby

[mrogers]

The alfresco.log file is created by the commons logging within Alfresco.

You are probably using the log4j implementation in which case you should be able to control it through a log4j.properties file.
If you are using another logging system then please refer to that systems' documentation.